System of distribution.



No. 683,460. Patented Oct. 1, l90l.

W. 8. GOULD.

SYSTEI 0F DISTRlBUTIUN.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

lVlLLlAM S. GOULD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GOULD STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,460, dated October 1901- Application filed January 31, 1901. Serial No. 45,413. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: turn on stud 6, and its outer end is adapted Be it known that I, \VILLIAM S. GOULD, a to ride over the switch-contacts 7.

citizen of the United States, residing in the The independent generator 4 is connected city, county, and State of New York, have inby wire 13, brush 14, and contact-ring 15 with vented certain new and useful Improvements the independent switch-lever l2 and by wire 55 in Systems of Distribution, of which the fol- 16, brush 17, and contact-ring 18 with one of lowing is a specification. a pair of contacts 20 20, intercalated in the This invention relates to improvements in series of contacts 7, the other contact 20 besystems of distribution wherein storage bating connected by contact-ring 22, brush 23,

re teries are used to equalize the load on the dyand wire 24 with one side of the generator 60 name or to serve as a source of energy at a and work-circuit. From the other side of the time when the main generator or dynamo is generator and work-circuit wire 25 leads to not in operation. one end of the storage battery 8. At the'other The object of the invention is to provide a end of the battery are arranged the end cells certain portion (the end cells) of the battery or regulating-cells 3. Each terminal of each 65 with charging meansindependent of the main end cell is connected by a wire 26 to one of a generator and work-circuit, so that while the series of contacts 8 8, the contacts of each main dynamo is charging the main portion of pair being connected to opposite terminals of the battery an independent dynamo is chargadjacent cells. Switch-disk 5 being placed ing the end cells in an independent unconso that contacts 7 bridge the contacts 8 8, cir- 7o nected circuit. As the battery voltage cuit will be completed from each end cell to changes, on account of charge or discharge the next, except where the contacts 20 20 oothereof, end cells are cut into or out of concur, these contacts splitting the circuit and nection, so as to maintain substantially conmaking connection from one end cell termistant the counter electromotive force prenal to one side of the independent generator- 7 sented by the battery to the main dynamo and circuit and from the adjacent end cell to one work-circuit, and switching means are proside of the work-circuit. These circuits may vided which on removing an end cell from be traced as follows: The main circuit leads the main-circuit connection transfer it to the from generator 1, through wire 25, to one end independent-dynamo connection, so that the of storage battery, out through a number of cell continues to be charged after it is disconend cells, (depending on the position of disk nected from the main dynamo. 5,) and then by wire 26 and contact 8 to a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is contact 20, thence by contact-ring 22, brush a diagrammatic representation of a system of 23, and wire 24: back to the dynamo. The in 5 distribution embodying my invention; and dependent circuit leads from the independ- 'Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the switch for ent generator at, by wire 13, brush 14, and transferringthe end cells, as above described. ring 15, to switch-arm 12, one of the contacts lrepresents the main generator or dynamo; 7, and a contact 8 to one of the end cells, 22, thework-circuitconnected thereto; 3,,the through a number of such end cells in se- 40 storage battery with end cells 3, and 4 the ries,(depending on the positions of the switch independent generator. A switch is pro- 12 and disk 5,) until the cell is reached that vided carrying aninsulating-disk 5, mounted at that time is in connection by a wire 26 and to turn on a stud 6, and carrying a circumfercontact 8 with the other contact 20, through ential series of contacts 7, which are adapted such contact 20, ring 18, brush l7, and wire 5 to engage fixed contacts 8 8, arranged in a 16 to the other side of the independent gen.- series of pairs around the switch-disk 5. erator. This may be assumed to be the con- Means-such as a worm-wheel 9, attached to dition during charging with the dynamo 1 disk 5, and a worm 10,operated by handle 1l charging the main storage battery 3 and so are provided for turning disk 5. An indemany of the end cells 3 as may be included 50 pendent switch lever or arm 12 is mounted to in this circuit by switch-contacts 20, 8 and too 12, 7, 8 in the charging-circuit, energized by independent charging dynamo 4, and the number of cells soincluded may be regulated by means of switch 12. As the battery increases in potential in charging regulatingcells 3 are cut out from the main dynamo-circuit by turningthe switch-disk 5,and such regulating-cells are by the same movement trans ferred to the circuit oft-he independent generator 4, so as to continue the charging thereof. When the main dynamo is shut down or ceases to operate, the switch-disk 5would be turned around to throw additional end cells into the working circuit 2 and maintain the proper working potential. The independent generator may also be sh ut down at such time, this system being primarily intended for separate installations with no violent load fluctuations and the battery alone being capable of maintaining proper electromotive force.

The independent generator is driven by a suitable source of power, preferably a motor 29, energized by connection from the main generator 1 and froin the main battery 3. Thus, if so desired, the battery 3 iii the in dependent circuitmay be charged by a motorgenerator energized by the main battery.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a system of distribution, the combination with a main generator and storage bat tery and work-circuit connected thereto, of

an independent generator and switching means for transferring cells of the storage battery from the circuit of the main genera tor to the circuit of the independent generator while maintaining the said two circuits in disconnected relation. I I

' 2. In a system of distribution, the combination with a main generator and storage battery and a work-circuit connected thereto, of an independent generator and a switch comprising contacts connected to some of the cells of the battery and other contacts connected to the main and independent generator and adapted to place a variable number of said cells in the circuit of the main generator, and a variable number of other cells in connection with the independent generator.

3. In a system of distribution, the combination with a main generator and storage battery and a work-circuit connected thereto, of an independent generator and switching means for transferring cells of the storage battery from the circuit of the main generator to the circuit of the independent generator while maintaining the said two circuits in disconnected relation, and a switching device adapted to control the number of cells included in the independent generator, irrespective of the number of cells transferred from the circuit of the main generator. 4. The combination with a mainbattery,a' battery in a circuit independent of the main battery, a generator in said independent circuit to chargethe battery therein, and a motor driving said generator and energized by connection with the main battery.

5. The combination with the main generator, a battery in a circuit independent of the main generator, an independent generatorin said independent circuit to charge the battery therein, and a motor driving said independent generator and energized by connection with the main generator.

WILLIAM S. GOULD.

Witnesses;

A. S. HUBBARD, THos. J. FAY. 

